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Preface

TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES

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The 14th edition of Timby’s Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing features a compelling and comprehensive comple ment of additional resources to help instructors teach and students learn. Resources for Instructors on Tools to assist you with teaching your course are available upon adoption of this textbook at https://thePoint.lww.com/. • Test Bank, completely revised for this edition by expert NCLEX-PN test writers to help you assess your students’ understanding of the material. • PowerPoint Presentations provide an easy way for you to integrate the textbook with your students’ classroom experience, either via slide shows or through handouts. Multiple-choice and true/false questions are integrated into the presentations to promote class participation and allow you to use i-clicker technology. • An Image Bank lets you use the photographs and illustra tions from this textbook in your PowerPoint slides or as you see fit in your course. • Pre-Lecture Quizzes (and answers) are quick, knowl edge-based assessments that allow you to check student reading. • Guided Lecture Notes walk you through the chapters, ob jective by objective, and provide you with corresponding PowerPoint slide numbers. • Answers to Questions in the Book (Next-Generation NCLEX-Style Review Questions and Next-Generation NCLEX-Style Clinical Scenario Questions) are provided for each chapter. Instructors are free to share these with their students to enhance student self-learning. • A Sample Syllabus provides guidance for structuring your medical-surgical nursing course.

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